Come on, Guys buying jewelry, boxes of candy, flowers and Sex isn't one of the options here? Come on we know why guys fork out on Valentines day so they can get lucky and get some Valentines Day Night!

If you are in a relationship that justifies a Valentine's day gift I hope you don't need it to be Valentine's for you to get sex. Also if you need 1 day a year to come along before being romantic again the relationship/date has little meaning to you.Hence: really no point in the day by the time it means something to you... it doesn't.

The day means nothing to me, but it means the world to my wife. If I don't please her on VD, I get no sex for a month or worse because she's mad at me, and I pretty much need to remodel the entire damn house to her exact wishes to get back in her favor. A few bucks on a card, dinner, some flowers, and some activity are worth way more than the punishment for not appeasing her, and she's generally a really nice person, just hits that depressed funk if I'm not romantic one day a year. I guess it's the price I

lol. Yeah I wonder how much stuff us guys do are preventative measures?:)

A related crazy woman issue: spent a weekend with a friend from when I was overseas and we got involved remotely. Not sure how you classify the number of dates when it was only two days you were together and a few weeks of vacations afterwards. But anyways, she'd never mentioned when her birthday was other than the first night. Then a month after it she gets all moody and says "I don't think you love me you didn't do anything for my b

Bad on you for being in a relationship for any sort of length of time without making a point of learning - and remembering - her birthdate.

Hey! I completely forgot about my own birthday last month until a couple days afterward when I logged into one of my Facebook accounts and saw a few well wishes. Was just too caught up in my work (prepping stuff for sale, prepping sold items for shipping, going on a Jawa raid, aka thrift store run, for more stuff to sell), and didn't take note of the date.

I reckon that if I can't be arsed to remember my own day (not important, really), then it is best that I have completely given up on trying to be anythi

My friend, I hate to have to be the one to tell you, but this is a classic case of a woman using sex as a tool to control & manipulate.

She may love you, she may not. But one thing is absolutely sure... no woman who really likes sex will use `withholding' as a way to punish or otherwise change the behaviour of her partner. Your wife thinks of sex as a tool. Trust me on this one. I am not a professional shrink, but am in a relationship with one. This comes up all the time.

You apparently haven't been put on the shit list for not doing something for Valentine's Day, even though you personally think it's an overpriced corporate money grab. Then again, so are diamond rings and my wife wanted one of those, too, even though I told her diamonds were known as rocks until the 1920s and she should request a real gemstone; by rocks, I mean that in the worthless way. Personally, I'd take a Captain Crunch decoder ring over the platinum and gold band I got, but that is just me.

Thats good. For the most part it's just a buying holiday. Strawberrys that were 2.99 lb are now 6.99 for 4 with a drizzle of chocolate on them, mini roses that were 4.99 are now 10.99 with heart stickers, restaurants have overpriced specials...

Granted we were pretty poor at the time, but it was worth it. That was over 20 years ago and she still uses it.So don't be hasty to pigeon hole women.

Obviously, both comments were meant more in general than to "pigeon hole" anyone. I know women hockey fans who would happily get hockey tickets for Valentines day, women who love to cook who would be overjoyed to get a new kitchen appliance, etc.

Each Valentine experience is a unique story written by each unique relationship...

Unless someone's been lusting after some swanky new vaccuum, or spends hours a day trying to sterilize their environment, giving someone that says 'I think you're not doing a good job of cleaning' or 'I think you should clean more often' is not the way to go. (even if it's 'I know you've been complaining about the old vacuum, so I got you a replacement', save it for next week, and give something else for valentine's day.

If you've already bought the vacuum, and are planning on surprising your significant ot

My girlfriend has never been with someone around Valentine's Day, and after we both spent a boat load of money on Christmas she was wondering what we should do. I told her we shouldn't commercialize our love by buying things just because the diamond companies say so and suggested that we craft things. I made her a picture frame that is themed after a video game we both play and put a photo of us inside. I think she is making something similar.
I'm an engineer and not an artist, but this was not difficul

My girlfriend and I decided to celebrate on the day after Valentine's Day. That should help me save on presents, and not to be in a crazy mad restaurant rush. We're going to go out for lunch. We talked about our plans and she wanted to have a nice date, and something romantic (flowers, a card...) and thought scheduling it afterwards would be a great way to save on money and congestion.

Tomorrow (valentine's day) I should be able to bring the wife home from the hospital after her back re-fusion* surgery on Tuesday. That's not too bad of a gift for a silly, consumer holiday. It's a pretty good gift for our almost-twelve-year-old kid too. Even better is that workers comp gets the bill.

"re-fusion" because her previous L5-S1 fusion failed after 7 years and broke. Fun stuff!

If you're a musician, even a mediocre one, how about a song? If you already have the instruments and equipment it's free and it will win you *massive* brownie points.

CSB: Last year I wrote, played (guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion pads), mixed, and produced a song for my girlfriend. Now in all honesty I do this sort of thing as a hobby so the mood and lyrics were the main challenges but even if you have just have an instrument, mic, recording device, and you know four chords even a horrible song will b

It's turned into another consumerism holiday more about what crap you buy than it's original meaning. The last 4 times I made reservations with florists, I got screwed out of my orders. One time, they tried to pass off pink and YELLOW tulips for my ordered bouquet! Everything is marked up, restaurants are booked up, and I always end up in a long fishing expedition around town trying to gather the eggs so to speak. The last two years I've minimalized. I do a nice quiet dinner I make here at the house a